jeff '84
Still #2 in both polls. Not that it matters, but any thoughts as to why Notre Dame (#2 in PWR via their better RPI vs Cornell) still haven’t convinced the voters (#5 in USCHO; #4 in USA Today, who by now usually buy into the computer numbers.

jeff '84
Still #2 in both polls. Not that it matters, but any thoughts as to why Notre Dame (#2 in PWR via their better RPI vs Cornell) still haven’t convinced the voters (#5 in USCHO; #4 in USA Today, who by now usually buy into the computer numbers.

This means even less now, in fact I think once postseason play starts, they should stop polling, no one cares and there should not be a final end of season poll. We ave the playoffs, nothing else matters, even for discussing.

In all honesty now that we have metrics like PWR there is no point to have polls anymore. They were always BS anyway. Nobody watches even a fraction of the teams and all the polling is "move my team up, rank the teams I've seen, copy everybody else on the ones I haven't."

Trotsky
In all honesty now that we have metrics like PWR there is no point to have polls anymore. They were always BS anyway. Nobody watches even a fraction of the teams and all the polling is "move my team up, rank the teams I've seen, copy everybody else on the ones I haven't."

The only reason I can see for polls is to start discussion in the early part of the season, before there's enough data to get a reasonable PWR.

Trotsky
In all honesty now that we have metrics like PWR there is no point to have polls anymore. They were always BS anyway. Nobody watches even a fraction of the teams and all the polling is "move my team up, rank the teams I've seen, copy everybody else on the ones I haven't."

The only reason I can see for polls is to start discussion in the early part of the season, before there's enough data to get a reasonable PWR.

That's fair. Although I think even then polls aren't about real performance but last year's best finishers, a couple anticipated drops from graduations, seasoned with recruiting hype.